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The Krause Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$867k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.9MHealth$578kHuman Services$168kCivil Rights$131kPhilanthropy$96kScience & Tech$68kSocial Science$50kYouth Development$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $642k
$23,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION$127,907
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$125,645
FOOTHILL DEANZA FOUNDATION$113,723
PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION$100,000
FOOTHILL DEANZA FOUNDATION$98,651
FOOTHILL DEANZA FOUNDATION$75,862
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION$32,388
CHILDREN NOW$30,000
YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY$25,000
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION$25,000
LOS ALTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$23,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM$16,000
FOOTHILL DEANZA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE TECH INTERACTIVE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE: $1k → 7%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $30k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $30k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $26k → 10%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%AVENIDAS: $12k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $12k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
SC
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 16 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

$3.0M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+4%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $914k · revenue +10%
  • THE CITADEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $566k · revenue +14%
  • SB
    SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • A
    AVENIDAS
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -20%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • PC
    PROJECT CORNERSTONE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
2
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Valley Vision

Valley vision is a civic leadership organization dedicated to improving the livability of the sacramento region. through research and action, we collaborate on bold, long-term solutions that improve people's lives.

Community Improvement
5
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
6
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
Connect Foundation

Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…

Education
12
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bus Barn Stage Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $914,097 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES F…LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $83,500 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FO…+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $566,315 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATI…+1 more: $8,010 · EducationSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $550,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDICAL F…+2 more: $16,000 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $355,645 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STAT…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherSILLICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FNDTN: $19,000 · OtherSHINE TOGETHER INC: $32,000 · OtherSHINE TOGETHER IN…+11 more: $44,000 · Other+11 moreCHILDREN NOW: $131,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN N…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $125,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'…AVENIDAS: $12,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $11,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $68,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureBus Barn Stage Company: $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Social Science
Philanthropy$1,012,597Education$574,325Health$566,000Other$475,645Human Services$280,500Arts & Culture$144,500Social Science$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $914,097 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $566,315 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $131,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $83,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $68,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAVENIDAS: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBus Barn Stage Company: $11,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION: $8,010 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT CORNERSTONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVista Center Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Los Altos Mountain Vi…Gordon E and Betty I …Jewish Community Fede…The Los Altos Rotary …The James and Rebecca…The Corrigan-Walla Fo…The George and Judy M…American Endowment Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inc · The James and Rebecca Morgan Charitable Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Krause Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Krause Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Krause Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Krause Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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